And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

a girl should be a butterfly, beautiful, delicate, but hard to catch

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.